Darren Ranco, a professor of anthropology and the chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, and Natalie Michelle, a UMaine postdoc and research fellow with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, spoke with Science magazine for a story about the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS). The center, based at the […]
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News Center Maine and the Bangor Daily News promoted University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy being honored with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C.
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Graham Carr, University of Maine alum, historian, president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal, will deliver the annual Robert Babcock Lecture at 3:10 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30 at Bodwell Lounge in the Collins Center for the Arts. In his talk, titled “The Histories We Inherit: Concordia’s Reckoning With the Pasts of Its Founding […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will be honored with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Lifetime Achievement Award on Wednesday, Oct. 25 during the organization’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C. Ferrini-Mundy, who has taught secondary and college-level mathematics and researched ways to improve both for nearly five decades, is […]
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WFVX (Channel 7) featured a college art tent offered by the University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center during the Sidewalk Art Festival in Bangor. “It gives you an opportunity to build your portfolio and then build a market,” said Freya Drew, a UMaine art education student, about participating and showcasing her work in the festival.
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John Thompson, chair of the University of Maine Department of Physics and Astronomy, was named a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society. Thompson was elected as a fellow “for performing seminal research on student use of mathematics in physics and the learning and teaching of thermal physics, for leading interdisciplinary collaborations and conferences, and […]
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The hosts of the film podcast “I Saw What You Did” will discuss horror movie classics adapted from Stephen King’s novels in a talk at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson will talk attendees through the films “Pet Sematary” and […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre and Dance is bringing one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed plays to the Hauck Auditorium. “Rabbit Hole,” by David Lindsay-Abaire, will be running from Oct 19-22, with performances at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, 20 and 21, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 21 […]
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The Associated Press, the Mirror, Spectrum News, the Bangor Daily News and WFVX (Channel 7) highlighted a partial solar eclipse viewing event hosted by the Versant Power Astronomy Center during Homecoming 2023 at the University of Maine. “As the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, it casts its shadow on our planet. In […]
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University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer spoke to The Boston Globe about recent voting trends, particularly a growth in partisanship and a new law in Maine that allows independents to vote in state and presidential primaries. “The reality,” he said, “is most independents lean” toward one party or the other.
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